The Blood Behind The Eggs/La Sangre Detras de los Huevos

The most common story I hear every time someone try to debate me on eggs is that they are claiming that eggs are okay for vegans to eat them because they are not killing the hen. Sadly no killing them does not make their living situation any better, hens are being mutilated, tortured and starve their entire life till they can stand anymore.

American consume about 200 million eggs every day, making the egg demand bigger and bigger and the care for these animals less important. The naturally hens lay about 10-15 eggs per year, but know they are been genetically modified to produce 200-300 eggs per year. The stress that hens presents when taking their eggs make them to produce more eggs. The problem with hens producing so many eggs is that this is a very intensive reproductive process, they reproductive system is made up of five parts and this intense process can take up to 26 hours. This is physically devastating for the hens, I mean can you imagine yourself going on labor for 26 hours over and over and over again? I bet you don’t.

To produce eggs shells hens need to give 10% of their calcium from her bones their egg shells, but by them being forced to produce so many eggs every year they need a bigger amount of calcium, bigger that her entire skeleton by 30% or more. This make them weak, their bones break, they can’t stand, and they suffer from osteoporosis and paralysis. Hens bodies get so tired of producing so many eggs that egg get stuck in inside their bodies, breaking inside them and causing infections, cancers and deaths. Hens also suffer from liver disease, fatigue and much more.

The conditions these poor animals live are horrifying. There are small cages with up to 10 hens inside them, suffer from legs and claws abnormalities, lose their feathers, they can’t stretch or spread their wings, the lower hens are getting all the pee and poo from the hens on top and many more horrible conditions giving hens a physiological stress. There are about 125,000 hens by shed so imagine all the feces, toxic gases, ammonia in these sheds, these cause infections in the hen’s eyes and respiratory system.

The stresses that hens live are so intense that they go plucking out their own feathers, or even eat their own eggs to recuperate the calcium they are losing. Of course this is something that the egg industry can’t afford because damaged bodies won’t be good selling for meat. To prevent this from happening egg industries debeak chicks with a razor blade, a hot blade or infrared laser on tempeture up to 1500 degrees F and without anesthesia. The beak is a very complex, functional organ with an extensive nerve supply causing several anatomical, physiological and biochemical changes on these poor animals damaging their tissues. The pain is so intense that they can’t eat and they even die of dehydration, or their immune system lowers, their behavior reduces, their activities go down and affect their social behavior, in other words they suffer from chronic pain, and this includes FREE-RANGE and ORGANIC EGGS.

When eggs are hatched almost 50% of the eggs where male, and males do not produce eggs or grow fast enough to kill for meat so they are ground up alive or discarded on garbage bags or throw away n large dumpsters were they die of suffocation.

Another egg industry standard is to starve the hens in order to shock their tired bodies into a rapid egg laying circle, this process involves starving the hen for up to 18 days keeping them from food, water and in the dark the entire time. According to the US department of agriculture at any given time over six million egg laying hens in the US are being systematically starved in their cages. After 8-12 months of egg production the hen will that to decrease their egg production, so they are put o the process of force moulting to shock their bodies into the rapid egg laying circle. This is awesome for the egg industries because they don’t have to waste money on food or water for these hens.

When they can’t produce anymore at the age on one and a half (when natural hens life circle are 10-12 years) they are send to slaughter houses, but because their bodies have to many abnormalities and are full of bruises they are used for shredded or can foods so they can hide their deformities. The other horror behind this is that the hens are grinded ALIVE or they are being gassing or dumped them into landfills. Even on the organic and free-range egg industries hen egg production decreases and they are send to be killed and sold.

CHICKENS ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE HUMAINE SLAUGHTER ACT!

The egg production not only affects human health (read my latest article: https://fitsteph.net/2017/08/26/eggs-the-perfect-proteinhuevos-la-proteina-perfecta/ ) and is horrifying for these living creatures but it is also non-environmentally friendly. To produce just one egg it takes 3 kg of grain in the form of chicken feed and 200 liters of water, this is 2,400 liters of water just for one dozen, can you imagine how many people we could help with this amount of water. There are hundreds of millions of pounds of feces treating eco systems and human health contaminating over 35,000 miles of rives and 22 states and contaminating ground water in over 17 states.

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